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Lennart Björneborn
Associate Professor, PhDIndex
Professional profile
My research interests evolve around how reachability structures in information systems, especially in libraries and on the Web, may support user participation, knowledge sharing, social navigation and serendipity.
Teaching
- web 2.0, library 2.0, user-to-user mediation and knowledge sharing
- webometrics and social network structures
- users' information behaviour, social navigation, serendipity, interaction design
- interplay between information spaces (social/physical/digital), mediation flows and users' information behaviour
- interaction design and mediation in the overlap between social/physical/digital information spaces
Research
A new research project in 2009, 'Walking the Library', with funding from the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, deals with how users move through the physical library and use its facilities. The project takes place at the new public library in Hjørring in northern Jutland. Research partner is the department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University. The project develops new RFID tracking technology to analyze users' movement patterns in the library. Using affordance theory in the project to investigate affordances, i.e. action possibilities, in the physical library, I'm particularly interested in investigating possible 'affordance gaps' between users' perceived affordances and the library staffs' intended affordances in the library's physical design.
My part of the new research project builds on a previous project, 2006-2007, on 'Libraries as possibility spaces for serendipity'. This project focused on the interplay between users' information behaviour (especially less goal-directed behaviour like browsing and serendipity) and the library's integrative user interface consisting of all contact surfaces, access points and mediation flows between the diversity of human, physical and digital information resources available in the library. Following Library 2.0 ideas, possibilities for user-to-user mediations in the library's integrative interface were analyzed in the project. 
User interacting with the library's integrative interface comprising human, physical and digital information resources (Björneborn, 2008a)
My PhD project (2000-2003) in webometrics on Small-World Link Structures across an Academic Web Space - a Library and Information Science Approach analyzed what kind of web links, web pages and web sites function as cross-topic connectors affecting small-world phenomena in the shape of short link distances along link paths connecting different topical domains in an academic web space.
The dissertation received the 2004 ASIST/ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Complete dissertation available as PDF file [6.0 MB]:
- http://vip.db.dk/lb/phd/phd-thesis.pdf
For more details see: http://vip.db.dk/lb/phd
- http://vip.db.dk/lb/phd/phd-thesis.pdf
For more details see: http://vip.db.dk/lb/phd
Corona model of web graph components and reachability structures (Björneborn 2004)
- Links are for use - the very essence of hypertext;
- Every surfer his or her link - the rich diversity of links across topics and genres;
- Every link its surfer - ditto;
- Save the time of the surfer - visualizing web clusters and small-world shortcuts;
- The Web is a growing organism
© Björneborn 2004
cf. S.R. Ranganathan (1931).
The five laws of library science :
"Books are for use. Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader. Save the time of the reader. The Library is a growing organism."
Curriculum Vitae
Born on May 8, 1957 in Helsingborg, Sweden - Swedish father and Danish motherEducation:
1976: A-level, mathematical/science line, Helsingborg, Sweden
1977 - 1978: Mathematics, University of Lund
1978 - 1979: Social Anthropology, University of Lund
1994 - 1998: Librarian, Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS), Copenhagen
1998 - 2000: Master of Library and Information Science, RSLIS
2000 - 2003: PhD in Library and Information Science, RSLIS [PhD defence 2004]
Jobs:
1979 - 1980: Substitute teacher in maths and natural sciences in a gymnasium (Olympiaskolan), Helsingborg, Sweden
1981 - 1993: Working in institutions for mentally disabled adults in Denmark. Learnt a lot about human-human interaction and what it means to be a human being.
1996 - 1997: Student's job at Danish Bibliographic Centre, responsible for the reference library
1996 - 1999: Student's job as web assistant, RSLIS, designing and maintaining web pages of the RSLIS departments, centres and administration
1997 - 2000: Student's job as web designer at the Danish Cultural Policy Research Network
1999 - 2003: Teaching web-related courses, RSLIS
2003 - 2006: Assistant Professor, RSLIS, teaching web-related courses
2006 - : Associate Professor, RSLIS, teaching web-related courses
Publications
- Björneborn, L. (1998). Connecto ergo sum : synliggørelse, sammenkobling, synergi, websidefællesskaber : fænomener omkring forskeres brug af personlige websider og links. [Connecto ergo sum : visibilisation, connections, synergy, web communities : phenomena regarding researchers' use of personal web pages and links]. Final year report. Copenhagen: Royal School of Library and Information Science.
- Björneborn, L. (1998). Opdagelsesrejser og kartografi på verdensvævet. [Explorations and cartography on the WWW]. BiblioteksskoleNyt, 6, pp. 10-11.
- Björneborn, L. (2000). Connecto ergo sum. Dagbladet Information, March 24. Note: newspaper feature article. Preprint: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/kronik.htm [in Danish]
- Björneborn, L. (2000). Verdensvævet som 'small-world'-netværk og mulighedsrum : omridset af en forståelsesmodel for transversale links på World Wide Web. [Small-World Web and Possibility Space : outlining a conceptual framework for transversal links on the Web.] MSc Thesis. Copenhagen: Royal School of Library and Information Science.
- Björneborn, L. & Ingwersen, P. (2001). Perspectives of webometrics . Scientometrics, 50(1): 65-82.
Full text: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/Bjorneborn_&_Ingwersen_2001_Perspectives_of_webometrics.pdf - Björneborn, L. (2001). Small-world linkage and co-linkage. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. New York: ACM Press. pp. 133-134.
Preprint: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/ht01_bjorneborn.pdf - Björneborn, L. (2001). På tværs af 'verdensvævet': om linkstrukturer og 'small-world'-fænomener på WWW. [Across the 'world weaving': link structures and small-world phenomena on the Web].
Biblioteksarbejde, 62: 27-49. Full text [in Danish]: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/Bjorneborn_2001_Pa_tvars_af_verdensvavet.pdf - Jepsen, E.T, Seiden, P.; Björneborn, L.; Lund, H. & Ingwersen, P. (2002). WebTAPIR - scientific information retrieval on the World Wide Web. In: Fidel, R., Bruce, H., Ingwersen, P. & Vakkari, P. (eds.) Emerging Frameworks and Methods : Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, CoLIS4, Seattle, July, 2002. Greenwood Village, Co.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 309-312.
- Björneborn, L. (2004). Small-world link structures across an academic web space : a library and information science approach. PhD dissertation. Royal School of Library and Information Science. xxxvi, 399 p. ISBN 87-7415-276-9 .
Full text: http://vip.db.dk/lb/phd/phd-thesis.pdf [6.0 MB] - Björneborn, L. (2004). Small-world connectors across academic web spaces. [Invited keynote presentation]. Proceedings of the AoIR-ASIST 2004 Workshop on Web Science Research Methods. 5th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Brighton, UK.
- Björneborn, L. (2004). Hvor er verden dog lille - også på webben. [It's a small world - also on the Web]. Bibliotekspressen, 17: 494-495.
Full text: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/2004bibpressen.pdf [in Danish] - Ingwersen, P. & Björneborn, L. (2004). Methodological issues of webometric studies. Chapter 15. pp. 339-370. In: Moed, H.F., Glänzel, W. & Schmoch, U. (eds.). Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research : The Use of Publication and Patent Statistics in Studies of S&T Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Björneborn, L. & Ingwersen, P. (2004). Toward a basic framework for webometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , 55(14): 1216-1227. Full text:
http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/Bjorneborn_&_Ingwersen_2004_Toward_a_basic_framework.pdf - Jepsen, E.T. ; Seiden, P. ; Ingwersen, P. ; Björneborn, L. & Borlund, P. (2004). Characteristics of scientific web publications: preliminary data gathering and analysis . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 55(14): 1239-1249.
- Thelwall, M.; Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology , 39: 81-135. Full text: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/Thelwall_et_al_2005_Webometrics_ARIST.pdf
- Björneborn, L. (2005). Dansk webarkivering. [Danish web archiving]. DF Revy, 28(5): 4-5.
- Björneborn, L. (2005). Identifying small-world connectors across an academic web space: A webometric study. pp. 56-66. In: Proceedings of ISSI 2005, the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24-28, 2005. Volume 1. Stockholm: Karolinska University Press.
- Björneborn, L. (2005). Small-world network exploration. pp. 318-322. In: Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E.F. (eds.) Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Preprint: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/bjorneborn_2005_small-world_network_exploration.pdf
- Björneborn, L. (2005). Serendipitet på det fysiske bibliotek. [Serendipity in the physical library]. Bibliotekspressen, 16: 18-19. Full text: http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/2005bibpressen.pdf [in Danish]
- Björneborn, L. (2006). 'Mini small worlds' of shortest link paths crossing domain boundaries in an academic Web space. Scientometrics, 68(3): 395-414. Full text:
http://vip.db.dk/lb/papers/Bjorneborn_2006_Mini_small_worlds_of_shortest_link_paths.pdf - Björneborn, L. & Brendstrup, E. (2008a). Brugeradfærd og serendipitet. Bibliotekspressen nr. 1, s. 6-7. Full text [in Danish]: http://www.bibliotekspressen.dk/bladet/2008/nr1/9.aspx
- Björneborn, L. & Brendstrup, E. (2008b). Artikel 1: Hverdagsbilleder fra to folkebiblioteker - en undersøgelse. Bibliotekspressen, nr. 1, 2008 [online version]. Full text [in Danish]: http://www.bibliotekspressen.dk/bladet/2008/nr1/~/media/Bibliotekspressen/PDF/bibpressen2008nr01%20artikel1%20hverdagsbilleder1.ashx
- Björneborn, L. & Brendstrup, E. (2008c). Artikel 2: Hverdagspraksis, rummelighed og serendipitet - undersøgelsens resultater og diskussion. Bibliotekspressen, nr. 1, 2008 [online version]. Full text [in Danish]: http://www.bibliotekspressen.dk/bladet/2008/nr1/~/media/Bibliotekspressen/PDF/bibpressen2008nr01%20artikel2%20diskussion1.ashx
- Björneborn, L. (2008a). Serendipity dimensions and users' information behaviour in the physical library interface. Information Research, 13(1): paper 370. Full text: http://InformationR.net/ir/13-4/paper370.html
- Björneborn, L. (2008b). Serendipitetsfaktorer og brugeradfærd på det fysiske bibliotek. Dansk Biblioteksforskning, 4(2): 41-54. Full text: http://www2.db.dk/dbf/2008/nr2/bjorneborn.pdf
Personal interests
I have an irregularly updated small 'blog-playground' at StumbleUpon:
http://connecto2.stumbleupon.com/
Very appropriately, my life mottos are: "Connecto ergo sum" and "Stumblo ergo sum" ;-)
My 'stumbler' avatar 'Connecto' (cut from Escher)
Read more about StumbleUpon containing lots of user-created knowledge sharing and serendipity :-) http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html If you visit Second Life you may also stumble upon my avatar, Connecto Allen :-)
For many years now, the following quote from Castaneda has been a guideline for my life :-)
"The only thing for me is to follow paths with heart, whatever path has heart.
There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly."
- from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda.
http://connecto2.stumbleupon.com/
Very appropriately, my life mottos are: "Connecto ergo sum" and "Stumblo ergo sum" ;-)
My 'stumbler' avatar 'Connecto' (cut from Escher)
Read more about StumbleUpon containing lots of user-created knowledge sharing and serendipity :-) http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html If you visit Second Life you may also stumble upon my avatar, Connecto Allen :-)
For many years now, the following quote from Castaneda has been a guideline for my life :-)"The only thing for me is to follow paths with heart, whatever path has heart.
There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly."
- from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda.
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